Directory of Previous Talks

Kevin and his wife had formed a love affair with Cornwall from having family holidays there over the years and so in 2005 they decided to purchase a permanent home, a former farmhouse built in 1860, standing in threequarters of an acre and located just east of Fowey, close to the south Cornish coast Their … Read more

Peter Brown was a secondary school teacher. He stopped teaching in 2004. As a child ‘I-Spy’ books introduced him to information about birds and then ‘The Observer Book of Birds’ extended his knowledge.  In 1959 his father, who was a policeman, was asked by a neighbour to deal with a ‘parrot’ that he had seen … Read more

Roger Browne is an excellent raconteur, humourist, pianist, actor and writer. He brings his own keyboardwith him and provides a thoroughly entertaining trip down memory lane – especially for a Probus age group. He was born in Blackpool but spent his childhood in Salford. The latter provides the butt of many of hisjokes. It was … Read more

Our long-awaited return to face-to-face gatherings – after more than two years of virtual Zoom meetings forced upon us by the Covid emergency – provided us with an inspiring talk by retired anaesthetist Dr Alan Kershaw in our new surroundings of Fulwood Sports Club. Alan, 65, who spent 25 years as a consultant at Barnsley … Read more

This was a very informative historical talk on tree development within the urban environment. Felicity Stout is the Woodland Manager and Tree Conservation Officer at the Peak District National Park and the University of Cumbria Peak District National Park Authority. The economic, health and aesthetic advantages of tree planting was recognised here as early as … Read more

This was Barbara’s 4th visit. (For information on Barbara, you can refer to her talk on 11th Feb. 2019) 157 years after a group of Welsh people emigrated to Patagonia, todays talk posed the question as to whether it had turned out to be a success or a disaster.      The incentive to emigrate was … Read more